Pope Stephen III

Pope Stephen III (700-24 January 772) was the Pope from 768 to 772, succeeding Pope Paul I and preceding Pope Adrian I.

Biography
Stephanus was born in 700 AD to a family of Italians in the Theme of Sicily in the Byzantine Empire. Stephen was consecrated in 768 AD after the death of Pope Paul I, and he became Pope. He held the Lateran Council of 769 to rectify the abuses in the papal electoral process that let Antipope Constantine II and Antipope Philip. The two antipopes were eventually deposed, and Stephen died in 772.